Not just anyone can become a Pokémon trainer, but that has not stopped one Animal Crossing New Horizons player from trying. A user on Reddit recreated Pallet Town from the original Pokémon Red and Blue, the first area of the first games that kicked off the worldwide phenomenon of Pokémon.
Recreations of famous locations in the Pokémon games have surfaced before as tributes from hardcore fans. Some Minecraft servers build around entire regions from the games: faithful recreations of Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and beyond. The first few Pokémon games have become synonymous with childhood memories, and along with the Pokémon themselves, the dynamic environments of regions like Hoenn and Kanto serve as source material for countless recreations in and outside of video games. One fan of the Pokémon franchise even built a cardboard and paper diorama of Red’s room from Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen for his hamster to play in. As the first location players of Gen 1 ever see, Pallet Town maintains a special kind of resonance. The journey to catch them all begins in Red’s bedroom, and moreover in Pallet Town, where the trainer must choose Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle as their first Pokémon. Every mainline game in the series since Red and Blue has taken the Pallet Town approach for introducing the player to the world, with only small variations.
SirTmac on Reddit has posted a short video of the recreation: complete with the homes of Red and his rival, the river to the south, the sign with the bed of red flowers, and the Museum in place of Professor Oak’s lab. The creator even made custom tiles mimicking the pathways and grass patches of Pallet Town from FireRed and LeafGreen. Detailed replicas of locations from Pokémon games have popped up every so often on the Animal Crossing Reddit. One user recreated a beautiful version of Phenac City from Pokémon Colosseum in New Horizons. For SirTmac’s possible inspiration, the Redditor commented that one of the villagers on his island, Static–the purple squirrel with a lightning bolt on his forehead, resembles a Pokémon as much as an animal villager can. Static’s black and purple house notably takes the place of Red’s house in this version of Pallet Town.
Given Gen IV squirrel Pokémon Pachirisu is an electric type, it seems easy to trace SirTmac’s line of thinking. The volume of customization Animal Crossing games enable translates to endless possibilities for fans to build scenes and locations from iconic games: hundreds of collectible items in the base game, dozens of flower types and color combinations to grow, and the customizable art feature that lets players flesh out their own designs to serve as paintings, tiles, prints over other items, and so on. The newest entry in the Animal Crossing series still lacks some of the customization features present in titles like New Leaf, Brewster’s Café among the glaring omissions. But New Horizons players continue to demonstrate their passion for the game regardless by embarking on elaborate projects like SirTmac’s creation. How long this renaissance lasts will likely depend in part on how long Nintendo plans to support New Horizons.
Animal Crossing New Horizons will continue to see more updates for the foreseeable future, with Nintendo promising new content to arrive in 2021. Perhaps a major update in the fall is in order. Regardless of the game’s future, SirTmac has definitely captured the small and humble beginnings of Pokémon Red and Blue and the Pokémon series as a whole with his creation.
Source: SirTmac/Reddit
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